by Primo Encarnación

SO, here’s what we know about Robert L. Dear, the Planned Parenthood terrorist, so far: old, white, southern, male, Christian (read his bible “cover-to-cover-to-cover” per his ex), conservative, gun owner, conspiracy theorist (cover your roof in metal to save you from government?) who handed out anti-Obama leaflets to strangers and claimed “no more body parts” during his arrest. And he was also cruel to animals, shot a dog, lived in a shack in the woods without electricity or water, hid food prepper-style, defenestrated his wife and peeped in on his neighbor lady, then headed to a trailer in MiddleOfNowhere, Colorado, with a woman he met online. And he thinks a shootin’ war against his enemies is the answer.

All clear prima facie evidence of mental incapacitation, except for the “old, white, southern, male” part, that’s just gravy.

Throughout the Right Wing Nutjob-o-sphere, they are seizing on any odd detail or rumor to make this man liberal, a drug addict (because he likes pot), or transgender (because he checked off the wrong sex on his voter registration) or just a vanilla maniac who descended from the woods and started shooting. This after they tried to claim he was a bank-robber who fled to PP afterwards, all while claiming that the “body parts” hoax is actually true, but had nothing to do with the crime. These are Olympic-caliber mental gymnastics in the service of confirmation bias.

Ain’t cognitive dissonance a bitch?

The vehemence bordering hysteria with which they thrust this man away from themselves belies the horrible verdict that fair-minded people will reach: the Right Wing created Rob Dear, put the gun in his hand and shoved him toward Planned Parenthood.

Stochastic terrorism is the mechanism by which so-called lone wolves like Dear became, in fact, the product of relentless programming specifically designed to radicalize malcontents to action. I recommend you all follow the link, and this one, as together they are a damning indictment not just of the Right, but of the weakly compliant and meekly complicit media who succumb to both-siderism out of fear and/or laziness.

The media must be made to acknowledge that, in fact, the radical Christo-fascists are creating a bunker-mentality army of “lone wolves” and anyone who stands idly by, or worse yet, actively encourages the hate-propaganda is complicit in these murders. The minute the Republican leadership started fawning over Rush Limbaugh in the 90s, rather than ostracizing him and his ilk, is the minute America started down this slippery slope of legitimizing hate and fomenting terror. Lately, their false victimhood has extended to claims that there’s a war on christians.  If that’s true, how come they’re the only ones doing the shooting?

The Right broke Robert Dear; the Right bought him.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has a theory about the Denver Planned Parenthood killings.

While urging caution about drawing conclusions about the Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting that left three dead, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz Sunday pointed to claims on conservative blogs that the suspected shooter is a “transgendered leftist activist.”

No. Just No.  Just Hell No.

Personally, I think Cruz wants the guy’s endorsement.  He did, after all, brag about his endorsement by the head of Operation Rescue.

Newman is president of Operation Rescue, a group devoted to shuttering abortion clinics. He also serves as one of three board members of the Center for Medical Progress, the little-known California group behind a video project targeting Planned Parenthood over its fetal tissue donation program.

Newman has long been one of the nation’s most controversial antiabortion activists, in part because of remarks he has made apparently praising the killing of abortion doctors and calling women who have abortions “murderers.”

In the past couple of hours Cruz is backing off the transgendered leftist thing – he now claims he just meant that “we don’t know, it could be anything.”  Yeah, a Canadian gun owner running for President.  Thats who it could be. Or Lindsey Graham.  You never know.

Thanks to Bubba for going back to the wifi machine before I exploded.

Well, we came into town for dinner tonight and I checked the news.

Damn, while I was gone, Donald Trump insulted women, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Mexicans, Syrians, blacks, liberals, the military, latinos, journalists, the Chinese, Japanese, “hundreds of people” seeing crap that makes crap true, and just for good measure, the disabled. He demanded that the disabled apologize to him.  You know, for them being overly sensitive to bullies making fun of them.  They need to get over that.

I think he wanted to offend you personally but he forgot your middle name and/or your address.

I hear that Carly Fiorina has a whole bunch of money.  That’s sweet because she needs to be sued for inciting crazy people.

Last I heard, she says that the liberals caused the terrorist act at the Denver abortion clinic and then added that obviously Black Lives Matter had something to do with it because they need to be peaceful.

She also claimed that “The vast majority of Americans agree what Planned Parenthood is doing is wrong.”  That pretty much explains why numbers slip through her fingers.  19% of American believe that abortion should be illegal under any circumstance.

So, here’s the deal: I’m going back off grid for 48 more hours.  Please fix this crap.

This is your open thread.  Have fun and keep it clean.

I told you that I was pretty sure that the next move with the Republican Party was going to be using the N word.

I, of course, was right.  That’s why they call me Madam Swami Juanita.  If I say it’s Easter, bunnies will start hopping.

So … it was the Republican Party in Minnesota.

The chairman of Minnesota’s Republican party says a local party’s volunteer social media manager is being dismissed for referring to a “Negro problem” on Twitter.

The 7th Congressional District GOP’s Twitter account linked to an online blog Monday night that blamed Democrats for ongoing issues in Minnesota’s black community. The party’s tweet quoted the blog with the hashtag “#Negroproblem.”

Well, aren’t we proud that it wasn’t the other N word.  And you know how sure I am that it was a volunteer who did it?  Not damn sure at all.

Thanks to Claudia for the heads up.

Here’s your open thread.  Make friends and be nice.